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35-year monitoring study clarifies ecological forces behind Lyme disease risk (phys.org)
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  • White-tailed deer are less important than previously thought
  • Mice matter more
  • The acorn effect
  • Mouse numbers don't predict the proportion of Lyme-infected ticks
  • Extreme temperatures don't kill ticks in the wild
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Extreme temperatures don’t kill ticks in the wild

This surprised me because I thought climate change (specifically warmer winters) were behind the explosion of tick populations in the United States and Canada.

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